Ch.6- Do Shadowhunters Need a Hospital

We spend time trading stories than simply telling stories to the children of the adventures that we've enjoyed in our long life. We hear the stairs leading the apartment creek under feet and watch as Alec enters the apartment finally sighing when he sees we're all awake, but I can tell it's just a show. He's happy to see that we have kept to our routine and that we're the first faces he sees after his time out on patrol. As he makes his way over Alec gasps in pain placing his hand over his chest as he slowly makes his way to the ground, but then he makes an ungraceful plop to the ground where he doesn't move.

I race over trying to use magic to heal him as Cas helps. I know I'm freaking out so maybe my magic isn't working right, but Alec I need him and no matter what it'll always be like that.

"Magnus, you need to calm down. Our magic doesn't seem to be healing him so I need you to take your phone and call 911. Can you do that for me?"

I slowly nod my head, but I end up asking her as I take out my phone, "Can't we just use a portal to get him there?"

"We can't risk moving him. Now do something before the boys wake up. Mel can't hold that spell for long."

I call 911 telling them where I live and everything they tell me to stay on the line and they'll talk me through anything that needs to be done before the ambulance gets there. I'm not sure how long that takes, but Cas seems to be the only one that's clear minded. I use a lil bit of magic to glamour Max and a whole lot more to get him to calm down. Not counting to calm me down as well. I knew falling in love with a mortal was dangerous, but shadowhunters don't need hospitals from what I know.

"Raph, try to see if you can get his healing rune to work at all," Cas tells my son.

Raph tries and nothing seems to be working except Alec isn't jerking around and his eyes aren't as fuzzy. Cas is rubbing his shoulders as she gently tries to keep him on his side. She's talking to him in a nice calm voice. While I'm just sitting on the other side with my phone on speaker on my hand and taking turns rubbing my boy's backs trying to keep them calm.

"He's alright, Magnus. I can just feel a headache and some confusion, but that's about it. He's fine if anything the biggest thing is he's really tired, but we have to try to keep him awake just in case he has a concussion."

"Can shadowhunters even get those?"

Cas shrugs at me, "I'm not sure. It's uncommon for them to have regular human ailments, but who knows what's going on right now. Let's just hope for the best."

"I knew I should have looked him over more after he said that warlock had hit him with some kind of spell, but I took his word that he was alright."

Cas sighs as she looks at me, "You're alright and so will he. Alec is strong this will roll right off of him. Is there someone who works at the hospital that will be able to help us?"

"Yeah, an old friend of mine Cat. I'll call her…" I look down glad I had muted the phone without much of a thought, "Can I use your phone?"

"Sure," she hands me her phone without much of a thought.

I call Catarina and she answers after the 3rd try with a growl, "Who is this and what do you want?"

"Is that a way to talk to me, Cat?"

I hear her groan, "What do you want, Magnus?"

"Well they'll be bringing Alec in soon and I need you Cat."

"Oh shit… Alright, I think I know the driver and that I'll tell them I'll take care of all of this and… I'll see you in a bit Mags."

I'm not sure how we survive the ride in the ambulance with Alec. I'm holding my boys close to me. While Cas said she was going to portal herself there in a lil bit. I remember the Lightwood family and call Izzy up quickly.

"Izzy, I need you to meet me at the hospital," quick to the point.

I hear my boys whimper and I start shushing them as I wrap my arms tighter around them.

"What do you mean? What happened?"

"We don't know, but Alec is being taken there and it's not good. Look I'll explain when you get there alright."

I hang up so I don't have yet another breakdown with my boys nearby. They don't need to worry more than they already are. I know that they want to press for answers, but they're being quiet. So I keep rubbing their backs.

Though I'm surprised that it takes so long for Max to start asking how his daddy will be.

"Don't worry, my lil blueberry. Daddy will be alright. There's nothing to worry about he's too stubborn to let this beat him."

"What of you, dad?" Raph asks.

I freeze up as I look at him and it hits me… I've been focusing so much on Alec hoping that I wouldn't take in my own state of mind. Alec is all that matters and my boys need me to be calm. Though inside I have a million questions and scenarios.

"Raph, I'm alright. We just need to worry about daddy right now."

He nods his head as he curls up on my side. Though I watch him in the corner of my eye wrap his hands around Max as if it's his second nature. I smile as I card my hand through his hair.

When we finally get to the ER Cat is the nurse there waiting for us. She quickly takes us to the side.

The thought of blowing something up with how frustrated I am with how we're waiting is ridiculous, but I calm down slightly when I watch Kat walk towards us. Cas seems to be a bit relieved herself not that it really shows at all. The boys and Mel are curled up on one of the couches across from us sleeping with how they worked themselves out worrying.

Though the look on Cat's face worries me a bit, "Magnus, I need you to be calm for this. Can you do that?" I nod my head and Cas takes my hand into her own. She sighs as she starts to tell me all that had happened how Alec had a seizure and we're lucky we had activated the healing rune when we had, or it could have been worse. The rune can't do much else, but prevent another seizure or anything from happening again. She said it was the lil bit of the curse that had hit Alec that had caused this. The spell is no longer in his system and he should be safe from that, but there might be some after effects from the spell. They're keeping him overnight to keep a close eye on him. You should have one of his siblings come here to activate the rune ever few hours to make sure his condition doesn't worsen until he's out of trouble."

"Where the hell is my brother?" I hear Izzy's voice shout making me cringe but Cat doesn't even flinch probably used to things like this happening in her hospital.

"Can you grab her before she causes trouble for us… plus wake up the children they need the sleep."

I nod as I walk over to Izzy pulling her over to where we're sitting and Cat tells her what she told me.

Cas wraps her arms around me, "He's alright that's all that matters. He's out of complete trouble."

"That might be true, but this happened cause I listened to him saying it was nothing. He could have died and my magic couldn't do anything for him."

Cas winces as she sadly nods her head, "I know Magnus better than anyone wanting to use magic to help those that you love and nothing seems to work or they don't want it. All you can do is make their lives as comfortable as possible and hope that they get over it. If not just letting them know just how much you love them."

I nod my head as I sit there then I have Izzy's arms wrapped tightly around me, "Magnus, I'm so sorry."

I shake my head as I feel tears fall from my eyes as I grip her tightly, "No, I should be the one saying that I shouldn't have listened to him. I should have done a better check."

I feel Izzy shake her head as she wraps her arms around me tighter, "No, don't' you dare think like that. Plus Alec will seriously beat you up if you say anything else like that and I'll help."

I chuckle since I know she's telling the truth even with how much Alec loves me. It's also with how much I love him as well. It's just I can't help, but to think that if I had just done everything I could to make sure he was alright it'd all be alright.

Izzy grabs my hand and looks at Cas, "How about I take the boys back to see Alec and show them that he's alright?"

I nod my head, "Can I take them back and when we leave you can go back to see him?"

She nods as she pushes me towards Kat, "Cas do you want to see him?"

She shakes her head, "Just take the boys with you and check on Alec. I'll meet you back home, but I need to check on my shop when you get back I think there are somethings I forgot to order."

I nod my head smiling slightly at her, 'I'll see you at home."

She picks up sleeping Mel gently in her hands as she heads out and I know portal home when she gets to a safe spot to do so."

As we walk into Alec's hospital room. Alec is slightly awake so he smiles at me as I walk into the room with our 2 boys in my arms.

"Say night to daddy and then we can head home."

My boys nod their heads as they walk over to Alec, "Love you, Daddy. We want to stay but Ph̀x (Pa)," I smile gently at my son knowing that Alec told them to call me father in Indonesian to help me get over my fears of what kind of father I would be to our boys, "says that you need rest. We'll be here right away in the morning," Raph tells Alec as he leans over kissing Alec's cheek.

I smile as Raph helps lift Max up to help him kiss Alec's cheek as well. I walk over to them as I kiss their foreheads before I kiss Alec. I watch a small smile grace his lips until it fades into something neutral as he seems to slip deeper into his sleep.

I lean over again to kiss his cheek and whisper while hiding my tears from my boys, "I love you, Alec. So please get better and fast so you can help me with the boys. Raph is going to be 9 soon and Lil blue is already 7 what would I do without you. I need you for so much more than raising the boys cause you've made my bleak life so much bright and pleasant compared to the 400 years I lived without knowing you. You are my life Alec and you are my soul."

I stand up as I take my boys' hands leading them out of their father's room after they give him one more kiss until we leave with some fighting with them.

"Phx (Pa), will daddy be alright? We can't lose him. I don't want to lose more," Raph asks me with teary eyes.

I smile gently knowing that he has a vague memory of how he came to Alec and my care. He knows that he lost his real parents in a battle we had against Sebastian and every once in awhile he'll have nightmares screaming out for his parents though now they're pretty gone. Rare these days, but I fear that he might have nightmares with Alec being in the hospital like this.

I kneel down as I kiss his forehead looking into my son's eyes after, "Raph, we won't lose daddy. Even if we ever do he is a part of us forever. He is a part of our very souls no matter what happens in the future you'll have him. I'll make sure of that. Do you 2 want me to talk to aunt Cas to make you 2 a locket like she has?"

They look at me as they nod.

Max is looking at with wide eyes, "So daddy will be alright?"

I look at Max, "I'm not sure,lil Blue. All I know is he needs his family so tomorrow we'll be spending it here so he knows just how much we love him."

Blue looks at me with watery eyes along with his brother as they try not to cry as they tell me, "I want to stay here with daddy."

I shake my head, "You can't tonight, but auntie Izzy is staying with him and if anything changes she'll give us a call."

They start crying even more as they look at me, "But we want to stay with daddy. Daddy needs us now!"

We've only made it to the waiting room so they're quite a few people staring at us with pity.

I pull my boys into my arms tightly as I once again hide my tears from my boys, "I know boys. He needs us more than we need him at the moment, but I need to 2 home so you can rest up so you can be as helpful as possible tomorrow. How about we make something for daddy when we get home so we can bring it to him first thing in the morning?"

They look at me with teary eyes as they nod.

Lil blue looks at me with bright eyes, "First thing? So right away then? Does making daddy something mean that it'll help him get better?"

I look at my lil boy as I look into his bright questioning eyes, "I'm sure it'll help daddy a lot, but we won't know until we try."

Lil Blue asks me another questioning, "What if we use magic?"

I shake my head not sure how to tell him that my magic didn't really help him at all when I had tried, "I'm sure we could try later, but now we need to leave him so the nurses and doctors can give it a try. Alright, boys. Let's get to bed then it'll be sooner we'll be back to see daddy and give him our lil presents."

They nod and we leave the hospital we make it to a small empty spot where no one can see us so I portal us home where Cas has some art supplies ready for us. I let the image and sounds of them making something for Alec take my mind off that I might lose my very soul if anything happens to Alec.

"Magnus, I know that life is hard and we all don't know what to do, but just be there for him